It would. But it’s a good option when you have computationally heavy tasks and communication is relatively light.

Once configured, Tor Hidden Services also just work (you may need to use some fresh bridges in certain countries if ISPs block Tor there though). You don’t have to trust any specific third party in this case.

If your CPU isn’t ancient, it’s mostly about memory speed. VRAM is very fast, DDR5 RAM is reasonably fast, swap is slow even on a modern SSD.

8x7B is mixtral, yeah.

Mostly via terminal, yeah. It’s convenient when you’re used to it - I am.

Let’s see, my inference speed now is:

• ~60-65 tok/s for a 8B model in Q_5_K/Q6_K (entirely in VRAM);
• ~36 tok/s for a 14B model in Q6_K (entirely in VRAM);
• ~4.5 tok/s for a 35B model in Q5_K_M (16/41 layers in VRAM);
• ~12.5 tok/s for a 8x7B model in Q4_K_M (18/33 layers in VRAM);
• ~4.5 tok/s for a 70B model in Q2_K (44/81 layers in VRAM);
• ~2.5 tok/s for a 70B model in Q3_K_L (28/81 layers in VRAM).

As of quality, I try to avoid quantisation below Q5 or at least Q4. I also don’t see any point in using Q8/f16/f32 - the difference with Q6 is minimal. Other than that, it really depends on the model - for instance, llama-3 8B is smarter than many older 30B+ models.

Have been using llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, Stable Diffusion for a long while (most often the first one). My “hub” is a collection of bash scripts and a ssh server running.

I typically use LLMs for translation, interactive technical troubleshooting, advice on obscure topics, sometimes coding, sometimes mathematics (though local models are mostly terrible for this), sometimes just talking. Also music generation with ChatMusician.

I use the hardware I already have - a 16GB AMD card (using ROCm) and some DDR5 RAM. ROCm might be tricky to set up for various libraries and inference engines, but then it just works. I don’t rent hardware - don’t want any data to leave my machine.

My use isn’t intensive enough to warrant measuring energy costs.

Disabling root login and password auth, using a non-standard port and updating regularly works for me for this exact use case.

You could also help preparing XFCE for eventual Wayland compatibility: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap .

Okular (a rather good PDF viewer) can’t save sessions (open files & positions) in non-KDE environments.

The issue has been open since 2018: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397463 .

There’s some partial merge request but it’s been dead for a year.

Sure, they’re just typically from the same industry with similar perspectives, similar blind spots and similar affinity for rants on topics X, Y and Z. Some get annoyed by this after a while so ignoring comments is a valid choice if you feel like that.

Probably. Still, it might be useful for blog discovery. One doesn’t have to read the comments.

Many such articles are reposted on HackerNews occasionally: https://news.ycombinator.com/

Alas, their IP requirements are too much for me.

Anyway, is there much of xenharmonic sheet music there? Take, for example, Easley Blackwood (but not his books).

Downloading there is straightforward: look at network requests, redownload svg’s of individual pages with wget and reassemble those into a pdf. I did that today and the resulting quality wasn’t exactly low - though I didn’t examine it too closely. Readability was perfect.

Probably could be automated, but I’m not bothered enough to do so yet.

Alternatively, ffmpeg -protocol_whitelist file,crypto,data,https,tls,tcp -stats -i <URL.m3u8> -codec copy <FILE.mp4>.

Also, some m3u8’s are just files containing redirects to other m3u8’s in various resolutions. You might want to extract the one you need and download that.

Primarily as a personal knowledge database, but also management of what, how and when is to be done (not for reminders or external motivation; rather to form a mental picture and understand the priorities). In future, I’ll also use it to track the state of various ongoing affairs as the need arises, and perhaps integrate local programs and APIs into the wiki pages (that’s probably where I’d need to write custom MW extensions).

I have a MediaWiki instance on my laptop (I’ve found the features of all other wikis/mindmaps/knowledge databases decisively insufficient after having a taste of MW templates, Semantic MediaWiki and Scribunto).

Also some smaller things like pihole-standalone, Jellyfin and dictd.

What will make me return to reading Reddit is all those old posts and comments on very specific topics. It doesn’t mean I’ll stop using Lemmy (especially if some communities I follow migrate here entirely), but there’s no proper replacement for Reddit yet.

Also, I’ve found no app for Lemmy working on Android 7. For Reddit, I’m using Stealth: it’s incredibly useful that you can create multiple pseudo-accounts with different subscription lists and saved posts without ever logging in or having an account. API changes are a sad development, but Stealth has an option to work by scraping old.reddit.com - unless they happen to delete it, of course.